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A jam submission

Sugary NightmareView game page

A tiny Halloween themed Shoot-em-up in which you blast candy
Submitted by Fava Beans (@FavaBeansArt) — 6 minutes, 6 seconds before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Enjoyment#13.8423.842
Presentation#14.5264.526
Overall#13.8553.855
Use of the Limitation#93.7893.789
Concept#163.2633.263

Ranked from 19 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Team members
Me

Software used
Gdevelop and Photoshop

Use of the limitation
You play as a Goblin girl having sugar withdrawal that's having a nightmare with colossal, demonic candy

Cookies eaten
1 pumpkin shaped sugar cookie

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Comments

Great game, but if you always stay on the top left, only two enemies will be able to hit you.

Developer

Thanks! And you've made a good point. I cheese that way myself too sometimes. I'm adding some stuff in an update that might discourage that a bit more.

Submitted

Very fun! I love the music and sounds

Submitted

A very polished game! At first it's not very clear that you can let enemies fly past (I thought the goal of the game was to not let enemies pass). Also, the shooting does not go to the centre of the cursor, but somewhat lower, which is confusing when shooting small enemies. And so the graphics, sound and gameplay are done at an excellent level!

Developer(+1)

Thank you for the feedback! I planned to have a little tutorial in the beginning to mitigate confusion but didn't have the time. About the shooting not being totally accurate, it looks like it's off by 8 pixels because I forgot to add a necessary offset to the angle of the trajectory. Whoops. I'll have that fixed after the jam.

Submitted

It's really clean and simple, both the pixel art and the sounds compliments. The only flaw is that it didn't allow me to move with WASD but I mitigated by shooting.

Developer

Thanks for the compliments and feedback! I'm not sure why you weren't able to move. I know that if you accidentally click outside of the game's window you aren't able to move until you've clicked inside the game again. That's the only thing I can think of. If that's not the issue, arrow keys also work for movement.

Submitted

Had a lot of fun playing this one! Would love to see a checkpoint system added or some power ups! I felt like so many enemies spawn with enough health that it made it feel impossible to do any damage to the boss. Overall was really impressed with the presentation!!

Developer(+1)

Thanks for your feedback! I'm glad you had fun despite the lack of power-ups and checkpoints. I wanted to add power-ups but ran out of time. The checkpoint system though I did not think of. That's a good idea.

Submitted

Good idea for a game. Not bad graphics. I thought it was too long for one round. I played for a very long time, died at the end and everything started again.

Developer

Thanks! Yeah, it's a bit long and I died right at the end myself a few times. It can be frustrating. I'm thinking of making it easier after the jam.

Submitted

Great game you made there. Feel, the punch to the attacks, enemy variety, great boss fight, pick ups ....

Everything fits well together.

Solid work!

Developer

Thanks! That's all the things I prioritized because I knew I didn't have time to add things like a story and a well-thought-out tutorial. I still wasn't able to add all the pickups I wanted though. I'll probably add them in a post-jam update.

Submitted (1 edit)

Adorable work. It's a lot of fun playing your game! Well done!

Submitted

Loved the game, the sound, the music and how the ideia of the colossal enemy was implemented, awesomee!!! Congratulations!!

Submitted

great graphic and sound. I loved the totural system also.

Developer

Thanks! I wanted there to be more than that at the intro but I was pretty short on time. I guess my simple way of doing a tutorial did get the job done though

Submitted

great art

Developer

Thanks! The art was my main focus

Submitted

Really nice gameplay! The art, the enemies, the sound beat and the rhythm got me. Congratz!!!

Submitted

Wow that was impressive great game feel and but all the other important bits are really solid. As a fellow Gdeveloper I am impressed with what you achieved. 

Developer

Thanks! I love Gdevelop because some things like game feel are really easy to do. Doing the same thing in something like Godot would personally take me ages.